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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Dear John Freeman, how are you? I miss you at home come home safe and soon with Gordon Freeman for thanksgiving dinner. Love mom."''
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Some characters will [[Last
A common subversion is for a character to [[My Name Is Not Durwood|have their name misinterpreted]]. This can get really long if said character is also [[The Magnificent]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Tatewaki and Kodachi Kuno in ''[[Ranma
* In ''[[Bleach]]'' Ichigo Kurosaki and Byakuya Kuchiki seemed unable to ''not'' refer to the other as such during their fight. They said each other's full names 20 times. Afterwards, when it was clear they were no longer enemies, Ichigo [[First
** In the dub, at the points where Ichigo calls Byakuya by name when he doesn't in the original, he sometimes just uses Byakuya's first name; for example, midway through Episode 57, he says "You haven't put a scratch on me yet, Byakuya!"
** Ulquiorra also calls Ichigo and Orihime by their full names, when not calling them "Shinigami" or "woman," respectively, and also once refers to Rukia by her full name.
*** Though Byakuya and "Ulquiorra [[Fan Nickname|The Saddest Clown in Hueco Mundo]]'s" case, they were intentionally trying to be dicks. Likewise, Ichigo was trying to be a dick up until he beat down Byakuya's sorry ass.
** Mayuri Kurotsuchi briefly complains about Ichigo addressing him by his full name without an honorific, but notes that it's better than a [[First
** The Zanpakutou in the filler arc tend to refer to people other than their owners by full name, and Sode no Shirayuki tends to exclusively refer to Rukia as "Kuchiki Rukia."
** When they were enemies Ishida also used to address Ichigo by his full name. He stopped doing that after they became allies and friends.
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* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', Frau Bow is more likely to be called by her full name than just Frau.
*** And Ramba Ral.
** And over in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', Tieria Erde refers to other people by their full names more often than not.
** Setsuna also does this so much. "Marina Ismael..." and "Saji Crossroad..." might as well be his catchphrase.
** Between the two, Setsuna and Ribbons also only refer to each other by using their Full Name. It's never just "Setsuna" or "Ribbons".
*** In fact, the Gundam Meisters usually end up referring to not only the other Meisters but ''themselves'' a lot this way. As shown in the quote above, [[The Typical Gundam SEED Destiny
*** And how could we forget Graham Aker, screaming in anguish as his favourite wingman is shot down:
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** Domon Kasshu from ''[[G Gundam]]'' is usually refereed to with both his names by almost everyone.
* In ''[[
** L calls Light either "Light-kun" or "Yagami-kun." However, when doing internal monologues and wondering whether he is Kira or not, he'll refer to Light by his full hame, usually with it preceding the rest of the sentence.
* In ''[[
* Scar in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** Major Armstrong also tends to refer to Edward by his full name whenever conversing with him.
** Fuhrer King Bradley is rarely referred to as just Fuhrer Bradley. Having "Fuhrer" for a title and ''"King"'' for a first name is just doubly [[Badass]].
** In the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** Chrono once addresses Fate by her full name late in [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (
** Nanoha and Fate call the Lieze twins by their full names, but are asked to use their first names when referring to them individually and "Lieze" when referring to them both.
* Xellos of ''[[Slayers]]'' always drawls out Lina Inverse's full name.
** Unless this is something unique to a dub version, Xellos has hardly ever used Lina's full name. He usually calls her "Lina-san."
* Kaori Sakiyama of ''[[
* Vice of ''[[Ultimo]]'' tends to refer to Yamato as "Agari Yamato".
* Kirihara ''always'' calls the [[Prince of Tennis]] by his full name. He is [[Lampshade Hanging|questioned about this]] in at least one of the spin-off video games.
* In ''[[Triangle Heart 3 ~sweet songs forever~|Triangle Heart 3]]'', Elise MacGaren once addresses Miyuki as "Miyuki Takamachi"- with her given name first, even while speaking Japanese.
* ''[[Shugo Chara]]'s'' Misaki Watarai persists in calling the protagonist "Hinamori Amu."
* [[Hollywood Cyborg|Franky]] from ''[[One Piece]]'' is the only Strawhat that refers to [[Adventurer Archaeologist|Nico Robin]] by her full name. He hasn't spent as much time with her as the rest of them though, being a fairly recent addition to the crew.
** Also a meta example, as it tends to apply to the fanbase too.
* In ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'', most of Zakuro's admirers call her "Fujiwara Zakuro".
* ''[[
* ''[[Asura Cryin]]:'' Reishirou Saeki does this with just about everyone, including Tomoharu Natsume, Misao Minakuni, and Shuri Kurosaki.
* In the ''[[Pokémon (
* Somewhat in ''[[
** Actually, she never called him anything but "you". When people thought she did referred to him by his usual nickname, it was actually a mistake (she said 'yon'(four), not Kyon).
* Self-proclaimed mermaid Umino in ''[[Satou Kashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai]]'' always refers to the protagonist Nagisa as "Nagisa Yamada", even in the must mundane of conversations.
* Maria Gracebert of ''[[Mai
* William T. Spears of ''[[
* Ayano Sugiura from ''[[
* Ayako of [[Slam Dunk]] always refers to Sakuragi by his full name. Strange, considering Hanamichi Sakuragi doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
* Takane from the anime version of ''[[The Idolmaster (
* In ''[[Panzer World Galient]]'', the majority of the characters meeting Hy Shaltat always address to him by his full name. Somewhat justified, given that his first name is very short.
== Comic
* Stephen Stills from ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]''.
* Dead Girl did this a lot when she first joined X-Force/X-Statix.
* A well-known [[Fan Fiction]] series of ''[[Half Life]]'', "[[Half Life: Full Life Consequences
▲== Fan Fic ==
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▲* A well-known [[Fan Fiction]] series of ''[[Half Life]]'', "[[Half Life Full Life Consequences (Fanfic)|Full Life Consequences]]", has ''every'' character refer to each other by their full names. For an example:
▲{{quote| When John Freeman got to where the screaming was started from he found his brother Gorden Freeman fighting the final boss and Gordon said "John Freeman! Over here!" so John Freeman went there to where Gordon Freeman was fighting.}}
* There is also a mega crossover in which Beyond Birthday (of ''[[
▲** In ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2946083/1/Metal_Gear_Solid_Fight_of_Metal_Gears Metal Gear Solid: Fight of Metal Gears]'' and [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2953859/1/Metal_Gear_Solid_Fight_of_Metal_Gears_2 its sequel] by the same author, everyone is referred to by full name in narration and dialogue.
▲* There is also a mega crossover in which Beyond Birthday (of ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'') refers to his favorite "fictional character" by full name only... [[Sarcasm Mode|naturally]], it's Edward Cullen. Lampshaded in every possible way.
== Film ==
* People in ''[[Demolition Man]]'' always refers to John Spartan as "John Spartan", never just "John". (Actually, this isn't limited to just John...apparently everyone's on a
* The titular ''[[Starman (
* In the ''[[
** That's not unreasonable; there were only thirty people on the entire planet.
* Will always calls Lee "Lee Carter" in ''[[Son of Rambow]]''.
* In ''[[Avatar (
* In the original ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (
* Used (at first) for laughs in the [[Biopic]] ''[[
** Don't forget Temple's greeting every single time, "My name is Temple Grandin!" It's even the first line of the film.
* In ''[[Small Soldiers]]'', after a bad introduction, Archer thinks Alan's name is "Alannowshutup", a mistake that is quickly cleared up.
* The [[Wu
== Literature ==
* A two-year-old in ''[[The
* In Neil Gaiman's ''[[Neverwhere]]'', Richard introduces himself as "Richard. Richard Mayhew. Dick." Following which Door calls him "RichardRichardMayhewDick".
* In Robert Jordan's ''[[Wheel of Time]]'', the Aiel people always call outsiders by their full first and last names. It turns out that in their culture, using a shortened nickname is a sign of great intimacy, usually between lovers. So using only "half" a stranger's name makes them feel weird.
** Further justified by the fact that instead of last names, the Aiel have a list of affiliations, and so they are unfamiliar with the last name concept.
* People addressed each other with their full names in ''[[Brave New World (
* Dobby does this to [[Harry Potter]].
** If not referring to him as something like "the boy," Voldemort almost always says Harry's full name.
* In the novel ''Deadline'' the four year old brother of the main character's love interest refers to her only as "Dallas Suzuki", not anything else.
* One of the ''[[
* In ''Star Wars: [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of Thonboka]]'', Lando befriends some very large intelligent aliens who live in the vacuum of space, and gradually gets more titles added to the name by which they refer to him, ultimately reaching the point of absurdity, i.e. "Captain-Master-Lando-Calrissian-Sir". All said as though it were one word.
** Justified in context, as the aliens' names are descriptions of who they are and what they've experienced, and full names of the oldest members of their race can take days to speak.
** In ''[[Outbound Flight]]'', Mitth'raw'nuruodo and Jorj Car'das are on a Full Name Basis until Car'das says to just use his [[Last
*** Thrawn's brother Thrass and the young Jedi Lorana worked and [[Heroic Sacrifice|died together]] to save the last few survivors of Outbound Flight. It all happened quickly enough that not only do they never exchange first and core names, but they called each other Syndic Mitth'ras'safic of the Eighth Ruling Family and Jedi Knight Lorana Jinzler.
*** And let's not forget the Noghri referring to Han as HanClanSolo at Luke's suggestion in the Thrawn Trilogy.
** In the ''[[New Jedi Order]]'', the Yuuzhan Vong always go by their full names, and it's explicitly stated that using just part of the name when you're not a close relative is incredibly insulting. The exceptions seem to be priests (who have only one name, on the whole), [[God
** In ''[[Star Wars
* ''[[Les Misérables]]'' has an unusual example: the ''narration'' always refers to Jean Valjean by his full name; it doesn't do this to any other character.
* In ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'', we see this with Rachel Elizabeth Dare, most of the time.
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* The Sklorno in Scott Sigler's ''Galactic Football League'' novel series call ''everyone'' by their full names, regardless of species.
* The Narrator does this to Marianne Engel in ''[[The Gargoyle]]'' for unexplained reasons.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Ygritte does this with Jon Snow.
* [[Captain Bluebear]] spends some time with a tribe of desert nomads who all have [[Overly Long Name
* In ''[[
* The main character in John Green's ''Paper Towns'' has Margo Roth Spiegelman, of the [[Rule of Cool]] variety.
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* In the [[His Dark Materials]] trilogy, certain characters such as Iorek Byrnison and Serafina Pekkala are almost always referred to by their full name.
* In both the original picture books and the [[Animated Adaptation]], the main characters of the ''[[Guess How Much I Love You]]'' series, Big Nutbrown Hare and Little Nutbrown Hare, refer to each other by their full names. It feels a bit odd, as they're strongly implied to be father and son. The animated series confirms this, and also introduces a number of other characters, all of whom are on a full-name basis with each other, apparently as a means of staying true to the style of the picture books.
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== Live Action TV ==
* [[Warrior Poet|Teal'c]] in ''[[Stargate SG
** Also, any character without a title (Jonas Quinn, [[Stargate Atlantis|Ronon Dex]]) is referred to by full name. He'll use ranks or titles in place of first names with others ("General Hammond," "Captain/Major/Colonel Carter,") though Colonel/General O'Neill is usually simply [[Last
*** [[Fridge Brilliance|This may be a cultural thing, as most Jaffa have names including an apostrophe. The use of the names could be seen as (first name/title)'(last name)-as in Daniel'Jackson (or Teal'c's son, Rya'c). With Jack, the apostrophe is built in (O'Neill)]].
* Tracy Jordan of ''[[
** He calls pretty much everyone else by their full names, too, which suggests that he thinks Kenneth's last name is "The Page."
* The narrator in ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' does this a lot. Except for Ned, who apparently doesn't have a last name.
* Bob Rooney, a minor character from ''[[Married...
* On ''[[The Middleman]]'', Noser always refers to Wendy as "Wendy Watson".
* ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' host Drew Carey usually refers to [[The Announcer]], Rich Fields, by his full name, especially when asking for another contestant. Rich sometimes plays along and prefixes his copy with "All right, Drew Carey..."
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** That's because {{spoiler|full names turn out to be a ''major'' plot point}}.
* Ben Bennett on ''[[Greek]]''. His full name is hilarious enough to be his Kappa Tau nickname.
* David Tench, Australia-based Channel 10's short-lived computer-generated parody of American talk-show hosts, had the habit of speaking to his celebrity guests by their full names.
* Most other characters on ''[[Lost]]'' are known by their first or last name exclusively, but Benjamin Linus and Daniel Faraday are almost invariably referred to by their full name and ''always'' refer to themselves that way.
* From ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'': "Pennilyn Lott will always be Pennilyn Lott."
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' had this with Naomi Wildman, who was always "Naomi Wildman" to Seven of Nine.
** Or "Naomi Wildman, subunit of Ensign Samantha Wildman."
* Grace Polk and Adam Rove get this fairly often, though not all the time, in ''[[Joan of Arcadia]]''.
* Lois Habiba from ''[[
* One of the more [[Buffy
* On ''[[Friends]]'', one of the subtle differences in "The One That Could Have Been" is that Rachel calls Joey by his full name when referring to him. To her, he's a celebrity, and just like we call celebrities by their full names (for example, we would say Matt LeBlanc when talking about the actor, not Matty), she calls him Joey Tribbiani.
* Angela Kinsey, who plays Angela Martin on ''[[The Office]]'', always calls her character by her full name behind the scenes because they [[The Danza|share the same first name]].
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** Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration, is always referred to as Bob Vance.
*** And he refers to himself as "Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration".
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* Rich ditz Mary Cherry on ''[[Popular]]'' is always referred to with her full name. (The same goes for her mother, Cherry Cherry.) Also, not only does April Tuna get this all the time, but she uses it on other people as well, most notably Carmen Ferrera.
* In ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' everyone refers to Guinevere as "Gwen", save for her [[Love Interest
** As of series 4, there has been an [[Inversion]]. Given Gwen's rise in status, she is now frequently being addressed by most characters as "Guinevere," whilst [[Love Interest
* In ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'', Djaq usually always calls Will Scarlett and Allan-a-Dale by their full names.
* In ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', they did a skit which was a documentary on a forgotten baroque musician, in which every mention of his name recited his full name: "Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm".
* In ''[[Daddy's Daughters]]'', Galina Sergeevna Vasnetsova ([[Liza Arzamasova]]) is always addressed as Galia Sergeevna, even by her own family. This is [[Russian Naming Convention|how the Russians address adults]], emphasizing that Galina Sergeevna is [[Wise Beyond Her Years]].
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* ''[[The Borgias]]:'' Giulia Farnese is always referred to as Giulia Farnese.
* The [[Main Characters]] of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' always refer to their friend Joe Mayo as Joe Mayo. When he asks one of them to do a favor, they even reply, "Sure thing, Joe Mayo."
** Also, Kramer's offscreen pal Bob Sacomano. Unusual because Kramer usually has friends who are only identified by [[Last
* ''[[Parks and Recreation]]:'' Chris Traeger always refers everyone by their full names. Especially "Ann Perkins".
* Evan on ''[[Royal Pains]]'' always introduces himself as "Evan R. Lawson, CFO of HankMed".
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== Video Games ==
* Franziska von Karma, from ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'', refers to practically ''everyone'' by their full names.
** After a while, several other characters switch to calling ''her'' by her full name. [[Hypocrite|Which she considers very rude]].
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]: [[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', Shelke always refers to Vincent as "Vincent Valentine".
** Once or twice she just calls him Vincent, but she plays it straight the overwhelming majority of the time.
** Then there's ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', in which there are two black mages raising a baby chocobo... Bobby Corwen. Giving a chocobo a last name in the first place is noteworthy, but they say "Bobby Corwen" enough that Eiko points out, "Can't you just call him by his first name...?" It's worth mentioning, though, that this is also likely a shout out with "Bo"bby "Co"rwen referring to Boco, from Final Fantasy V and VIII. (Although the black mages themselves might just not understand that you don't always use last names...)
* Advocat has a lot of fun fully pronouncing Lillet Blan's full name in ''[[Grim Grimoire]]''.
* For some reason Date Masamune of ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' always refers to his rival Sanada Yukimura by his full name. Yukimura goes through varying degrees of this, though he eventually graduates to [[First
** To be honest, amongst the fandom most characters are known predominately by their full names. It just seems to flow better somehow.
* In the [[Visual Novel]] ''Sekien no Inganocka'', a brothel matron in the Infinitely Crowded Street prefers to be called by her full name Alisa Greg. In fact, she subtly demands it, and the naga-like woman has torn up a man's face with fangs drawn, even though he was a customer.
* [[Leeroy Jenkins|Leeeeroy Jeeenkiiiins!]]
* Given enough character space for names, it is entirely possible for players to enter a full name for characters with customisable names. If the game was scripted on the assumption that players would only enter a first name, this trope results. ''[[Secret of Evermore]]'' is an example, due to a ridiculously-long name entry space.
* Touka in ''[[
* David Crenshaw, of ''[[Tom Clancy]]'s H.A.W.X.'', to the point that his actual callsign is almost [[All There in the Manual]].
* Amane in ''[[
* Lampshaded in the first phase of the [[No Export for You|Japan only]] game, ''The Recollection of [[
== Web Original ==
* In ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' The Cheat's name is ''always'' [[Spell My Name
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* John Redcorn, ''[[King of the Hill]]''.
** Kahn and Minh always refer to the Hills by their full names.
* In an episode of ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
** Rath addresses everybody by their full name.
* In at least one episode of ''[[
* ''Every single celebrity'' to guest-star on ''[[Family Guy]]''.
* On ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', Dr. Doofensmirtz constantly refers to Perry the Platypus in this fashion.
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* Some robots in ''[[Futurama]]'', such as Fry's [[Lucy Liu]]-bot, would address people by their full names and in [[Robo Speak]].
* [[Heel Face Turn]] [[Robot Buddy]] Cytro addresses [[Max Steel]] by his full name.
* Cad Bane in ''[[Star Wars:
* [[Thor]] does this in ''[[The Avengers:
* "A pimp named Slickback" from [[The Boondocks]].
* Aya, the [[Robot Girl|Robot]] [[Spaceship Girl]] on ''[[Green Lantern:
** [[Jerkass|Ganthet]] tended to call Hal "Hal Jordan of Sector 2814", or simply [[You Are Number Six|"2814"]].
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* Ron Paul.
** There was a time where it was always "Ron Paul [[Image Boards|/b/]]".
* Richard Dean Anderson never seems to be called anything but Richard Dean Anderson. He even lampshades it on his [[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]] appearance: "Did somebody mention my names?"
* Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is almost always referred to by his full name. His predecessor, Göran Persson, was too, although that could have had something to do with the fact that both "Göran" and "Persson" are very common Swedish names.
* Bob Dole. Sometimes "Robert Dole", but never just "Dole".
* In real life conversation, if someone addresses you or refers to you by your full name, there may be two possible reasons: either your name is alliterative (like "Peter Parker" or "Clark Kent") or they really don't like you much.
** It can also be true not only for alliterative reasons but simply if the names sound good together; close acquaintances can often refer to each other by their full names if the last name is one, or sometimes two, syllables.
* Vladimir Stogniyenko, a popular Russian sports commentator, nearly always refers to the Argentine football (soccer) legend Maradona by his full name, Diego Armando Maradona.
** [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Diego Armando?!]]
* It is common in South Korea due to many people having most commonly three one-syllable names.
** Although it's more likely due to the fact that there are fewer than fifty family names commonly in use in Korea, with about a third of all Koreans sharing the family names Kim, Park, or Lee.
* A variation: [[Samuel L. Jackson]]. The "L" is not optional. Unless you refer to him as "Sam Jackson" or "Sam ''Motherfuckin''' Jackson". Never Sam, never Samuel, and never Mr. Jackson
** Some presidents do this too: [[Harry S. Truman]], [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Ulysses S. Grant]], etc.
* The late Billy Mays. It's hard to imagine it being anything else. Even "William" sounds odd.
* Andrew Lloyd Webber. No one would know who was being spoken about without the Lloyd in there.
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* Happens a lot in real life when talking about two people with the same first name in the same conversation, or sometimes to clarify which person you're talking about.
* Facebook tagging in statuses and comments tends to cause this.
* [[Gunman
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